{"id":3364,"date":"2026-09-05T22:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:10:57","slug":"chelsea-boss-enzo-maresca-fears-liverpool-impossible-to-catch-in-premier-league-title-race-after-446m-summer-transfer-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca fears Liverpool &#8216;impossible to catch&#8217; in Premier League title race after \u00a3446m summer transfer splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>If Chelsea are to compete, then they will need Cole Palmer at their disposal. He was forced out of a disappointing 2-1 defeat at Manchester United with a groin injury, but Maresca is confident that surgery can be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>He said when asked about the possibility of England international Palmer being forced under the knife: \u201cThe medical staff, they didn\u2019t mention to me about surgery. I don\u2019t know if in the next days or the next weeks, but I don\u2019t think so, to be honest. But we need to protect Cole, 100%. Because of the Club World Cup, and we never stopped, we need to manage and protect different players, and Cole is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have a meeting with the medical staff and decide the best solution for him. It is not an injury which is black and white. It is an injury which on some days you can be better and the pain disappears, and sometimes you can be worse so that is why we have to manage it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/chelsea-boss-enzo-maresca-liverpool-impossible-catch-premier-league-title-race-446m-transfer-splurge\/bltb00350c09760707c\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Chelsea are to compete, then they will need Cole Palmer at their disposal. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}